R. Rohr – All of us are much larger than the good or bad stories we tell about ourselves. Don’t get caught in “my” story, my hurts, my agenda. It’s too small. It’s not the whole you, not the Great You. It’s not the great river. It’s not where life is really going to happen. No wonder the Spirit is described as “flowing water” and as “a spring inside you” (John 4:10-14) or, as it states at the end of the Bible, as a “river of life” (Revelation 22:1-2). Your life is not really about “you.” It is part of a much larger stream called God. The separate self is finally an illusion for those who stay on the journey of prayer.
Month: October 2018
May your gift of light pervade this whole day,
— that we may be the salt of the earth and the light of the world.
Grant that we may progress today in your love,
— and that all things may work together for our good and the good of all.
It breaks your heart
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. – A. Bartlett Giamatti, from A Great and Glorious Game
https://mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giamatti.html
For you were once darkness,
but now you are light in the Lord.
Live as children of light.
– Ephesians 5:8
May we seek those things that are beneficial to our brothers and sisters
— without counting the cost
Receive the souls of the dead, Lord,
— grant them your favor and the gift of eternal glory.
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